Faculty Achievements, 2004-2005
Conferences and Invited Talks

Conferences and Invited Talks

Jennifer Armstrong (Biology)Professor Armstrong was an invited speaker for the Career Development Panel Discussion at the Damon Runyon Scientific Retreat

Cheryl Baduini ( Biology) “Analysis of Population Structure Among Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) Populations from the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean using Mitochondrial DNA.” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group (held jointly with the Waterbird Society), Portland, Oregon, January 2005. With K.I. Warheit.

“Analysis of Population Structure Among Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) Populations from the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean using Mitochondrial DNA.” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group (held jointly with the Waterbird Society), Portland, Oregon, January 2005. With K.I. Warheit.

“Tracking the Movements and Trans-Pacific Migration of Sooty Shearwaters Captured off Central California.” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group (held jointly with the Waterbird Society), Portland, Oregon, January 2005. With J. Adams, D. Hyrenbach, and J.T. Harvey.

“Analysis of Population Structure Among Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) Populations from the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean Using Mitochondrial Cytochrome b and Control Regions.” Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, IAPC, Montevideo, Uruguay. South America. August 2004. With K.I. Warheit.

“Post Breeding Movements and Habitats of the Black-Footed Albatross and Sooty Shearwater.” Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, IAPC, August 2004. Montevideo, Uruguay. South America. August 2004. With K.D. Hyrenbach, K.D., M. Hester, C. Keiper, and J. Adams.

“Analysis of Population Geographic Structure Among Sooty Shearwater Populations from the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean using Mitochondrial Cytochrome b and Control Regions DNA.” Invited speaker for Biology Summer Seminar Series, Pomona College, Harvey Mudd College, Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges. July 2004.

“The Versatile Lifestyle of Sooty Shearwaters: From the Temperate Rainforests to the Pelagic Oceans and Back.” Invited Speaker for the Pomona Valley Audubon Association. April 2004.

“Imitation, Flattery and the Lisbon Agenda: the Irish Model and Labor Market and Social Policy,” 2nd ATINER International Conference on European Political Economy, May 2004, Athens.

In addition, Professor Boyle gave invited talks at the following:
“FÁS and Active Labour Market Policy 1985-2004.” Presentation to launch a book being published by The Policy Institute. Trinity College, Dublin, March 2005.
“The Irish Economic Miracle: A Crock of What?” International Relations Colloquium, Oldenbourg Center, Pomona College, February 2005.
“The Celtic Tiger and the Swiss Army Knife: An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and the Irish Model,” Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, December 2004.
“The Celtic Tiger and the Swiss Army Knife.” European Union Center of California Opening Public Lecture in “Small States – Global Influence” Series , Scripps College, September 2004.
“Boston versus Berlin? The European and neo-liberal stripes of the Celtic Tiger Economy.” Presented at The Irish Seminar 6th Annual Summer Session June 2004, Keough-Notre Dame Centre, Newman House, Dublin.
“Problem-Induced Policy Development: FÁS and Active Labour Market Policy 1987-2004”. Presented as a Policy Institute Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, May 2004. www.policyinstitute.tcd.ie/working_papers/Boyle_Presentation_180504.ppt

David Furman (Art) Slide lecture at the University of Southern California, Art Department, Los Angeles, in March 2005 and at California State University, Los Angeles, spring quarter, 2005.

Slide/lecture presentation to the Hellenistic Fulbright Association International Conference in Athens, Greece, October 2004

Judith V. Grabiner (Mathematics) “It’s All for the Best: Optimization in the History of Mathematics,” Swedish Mathematical Society’s Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden, June 2004.

“It’s All for the Best: Searching for Perfection with Mathematical Models,” American Mathematical Society – Mathematical Association of America Joint Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2005.

Other invited talks include:“Newton, Maclaurin, and the Authority of Mathematics,” History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, May 2004.
“Mathematics in the Islamic World,” Pomona College Islamic Studies Seminar, November 2004.
“Why Does Historical Truth Matter to Mathematicians? Dispelling Myths while Promoting Maths,” Claremont Mathematics Colloquium, January 2005.
“Why Should Historical Truth Matter to Mathematicians?” The Oberlin College Tamura-Lilly Mathematics Lecture, March 2005.

“Caohai Nature Reserve and Infrastructure Development: Why the Impacts of a Nature Reserve’s Infrastructure Projects Apparently Outweigh Those of China’s Western Development Project,” International Studies Association Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005.

“People-Centered Conservation: Is it Worth it?” Harvey Mudd Environmental Research Colloquium, February 2005.

“Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice in Environmental Studies.” Presented at the Interdisciplinary Departments Roundtable. Higher Education in the Crosshairs: Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice. Pitzer College, February 2005.

“Media Praxis: Towards Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics in the Inter-Disciplines,” Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice Conference: Pitzer College, February 2005.

In addition, Professor Juhasz gave invited talks at the following:
Rutgers University, History Department: Memory, Race and the Archive: 2005.
UCLA, Make Art/Stop AIDS: 2004.
Fire in the Library, Conversations on the Future: Organized by Eugenia Butler, 2004.

“Social Support and Undermining Among Men and Women of Mexican origin,” Western Psychological Association Meeting, Phoenix, April 2004. With E. London, N. Urbina, G. Vargas, C. Bingham Mira, and H.F. Myers.

“Resistance,” The Missing Psychology in Cultural Anthropology’s Key Words session at the joint meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the American Ethnological Society, San Diego, April 2005.

Laura Skandera Trombley (President) President Trombley was the keynote speaker at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District VII Conference. “Our Mandate is to Change the Universe: Advancement in the 21st Century.” San Francisco. December 2004.

She was also the keynote at the American Council of Academic Deans California Regional. “Reduced Expectations: A Mixed Message for Future Generations.” Pepperdine University, October 2004.

Teresa Vázquez (Sociology/Chicana/o Studies) “Is Empire a New Planning Regime?” part of the panel “Empire, Globalism and New Orientalisms in Planning,” ACSP 2004, 45th Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2004.

“Vulture City: In Search of a Safer City for Women in Ciudad Juárez,” as part of the panel “Urban Landscapes, Redevelopment, and Inequality,” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004.

Discussant/Moderator and Organizer, “Femicide on the US-Mexico Border: Speaking Tour with a Mother of a Murdered Young Woman.” Organized the visit of the tour in collaboration with the Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Women’s Studies Center and the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, March 2005.

Andre Wakefield (History) “Humboldt and the Mines.” Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 2004.

“The German Sciences of State Promotion.” Fifth Joint Meeting of the British and North American History of Science Societies (BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS), Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2004.

In addition, Professor Wakefield gave invited talks at the following:
“Leibniz in the Harz,” Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science Technology and Medicine, UCLA, October 2004.
“The Uses and Abuses of Cameralism,” 17th Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany, June 2004.
“Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff und die fiskalische Forsten Sachsen-Gothas,” University of Erfurt, Germany, July 2004.

“Red, Yellow, Black: Performing Racialized Masculinities through Basketball and the Body,” at the Spotlight Session, “Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Thinking Through Sport, Race, and the Nation,” National Conference, North American Society for Sociology of Sport, November 2004. With Brett St. Louis and Gregory Rodriguez.

“We Were Like Mosquitoes: Place, Basketball and the Chinese Playground,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, August 2004. With David Yoo, Masao Suzuki, and Timothy Tseng.